Reports of a highly contagious new variant in the United States, published on Friday by multiple news outlets, are based on speculative statements made by Dr. Deborah Birx and are inaccurate, according to several government officials. The erroneous report originated at a recent meeting where Dr. Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task…
With 12 days to go, the Trump administration on Friday approved a long-held conservative goal: to issue a state’s Medicaid funding as a spending-capped block grant. The structural experiment in Tennessee, which would become effective once approved by the state legislature, would last for 10 years. Block grants for Medicaid have been a priority for…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. On March 11, I flew home to New York after a quick vacation in Brussels, arriving at an eerily quiet Kennedy Airport where the fear of the spreading coronavirus felt tangible. We landed at 1:30…
Most symptoms in the Wuhan report were slightly more common among women, with 81 percent reporting at least one health problem, compared with 73 percent of men. Reports about other respiratory diseases, like the 2003 outbreak of SARS, another type of coronavirus, suggest that some Covid survivors may experience aftereffects for months or years. Most…
But when a user changes the settings to allow “x-tagged” content to be viewed, streams with thousands of viewers discussing the riot at the Capitol quickly dominate the home page. In his stream on Thursday night, Mr. Fuentes, who had attracted 20,000 viewers, called Wednesday’s events “a flicker of hope” that “showed what is possible.”…
Another day, another fashion drop we can’t stop thinking about. From Louis Vuitton’s new collection in partnership with artist Urs Fischer to Burberry’s latest capsule that dips into the brand’s rich archives, we rounded up the hottest collaborations of the month. Click through to stay up-to-date with the newest fashion announcements, newest launches, and more,…
Welcome. On a recent virtual visit to the Art Institute of Chicago, I stopped into the Thorne Miniature Rooms, a series of dollhouse-scale dioramas, created by Narcissa Niblack Thorne in the 1930s and ’40s, depicting dozens of “period rooms”: a mid-19th-century New York parlor; the living room of an old Cape Cod cottage; an English…
Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Friday that their Covid vaccine is effective against one of the mutations present in the new contagious variants identified in Britain and South Africa. Independent experts said the findings were good news, but cautioned that each of those coronavirus variants has several other potentially dangerous mutations that have not yet…
Hi, friends, and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. Margaux Laskey filling in for Em today. What a roller coaster of week. How are you doing? I’m trying to focus on the bright spots: My kids. My Christmas tree. (Yup, it’s still up.) What’s for dinner. Looking for something to cook has become a delicious daily…
Growing up in the United States Virgin Islands, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith saw firsthand what can happen in a community with limited access to health care. Her father, Moleto “Bishop” Smith Sr., was only in his 40s when he suffered a debilitating stroke that left him partly paralyzed and with slurred speech. The cause was high…